‘Hey! I’m coming too!’ Aoife appeared at my side. What was it doing? Why had it seemed so defeated and tired as it left? I had to know. Somewhere behind that door lurked the Thief.
‘I have to pick the perfect one.’Īs he grabbed at the ledgers, forgetting Aoife and me, I looked back at the heavy wooden door at the back of the library.
‘And JK Rowling!’ĭad looked at the shelves, his eyes greedy. ‘An Eoin Colfer story.’ I flipped the pages again. There were stories by complete unknowns mixed in with authors. I grabbed the nearest one I could get my hands on. He slapped it open on the ground.Īoife dragged down a second ledger. He jumped up as high as he could to get at one of the older volumes. If Dad wrote that story, it would surely make him rich and famous.ĭad ran at the ledgers with giddy glee. We could choose one stolen story from thousands of fantastic authors. Having successfully completed the Thief’s challenges, it told us we had won a story from the library. The Thief, defeated and weaker than we’d ever seen it, returned our father’s memories and stories to him. There were high shelves with hundreds of leather ledgers of stolen stories. Heavy wooden shutters were pulled tight against the storm winds outside. The library was a candle-lit cave in a high mountain. We travelled to the secret library of stolen stories with our Dad and confronted the Thief. We learnt to magically travel through stories and even learnt library magic. Thanks to writing advice from Irish kids’ fiction authors we completed the Thief’s Story Challenges to win back our Dad’s memories and stories. But memories are stories so the Thief took his memories too. He did its story challenges, but got an answer wrong so the Thief won all his stories. Our writer Dad’s books weren’t getting published so he tried to win a great story idea from the Thief. It has a giant ledger on its back in which it writes the stolen stories before hiding them away in its secret library. The mysterious and magical Story Thief steals writer’s stories if they don’t write them down or tell them quickly enough.
#Thief in the night challenge series#
This is the last episode of our twelve episode blog series about our adventures last summer when the Story Thief whirled into our lives.
#Thief in the night challenge how to#
Note: If you’re a teacher or librarian or work with kids check out the guidance for educators section including advice on how to do this month’s Story Challenge!Įverything you need to know if you haven’t read the other episodes…
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